Green grabbing and the dynamics of local-level engagement with neoliberalization in Tanzania’s wildlife management areas
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Article
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Authors
Green, KE
Adams, WM
Abstract
This paper analyzes the politics and struggles ongoing within wildlife management areas (WMAs) in Tanzania to discuss the dynamics of neoliberalization of the wildlife sector. We discuss neoliberalization as a new political-economic context within which the ongoing politics of natural resource management are played out, and focus on green grabbing as an expression of these politics. We discuss how local-level actors are engaged in these processes, often in strategic ways, to negotiate their roles within WMAs and address green grabbing by the state. Secondly, we discuss an example of the politics of land control and local-level actors’ enactment of accumulation by dispossession within a WMA.
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Keywords
nature-state-territory, engagement with neoliberalization, Tanzania, wildlife management areas, green grabbing, politics of natural resource governance
Journal Title
Journal of Peasant Studies
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Journal ISSN
0306-6150
1743-9361
1743-9361
Volume Title
42
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
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Sponsorship
The arguments in this paper have benefited greatly from the many discussions that have taken place
within the Political Ecology Research Group at the University of Cambridge. The authors would also
like to thank Chris Sandbrook for useful comments on an earlier draft and three anonymous reviewers
for their comments and recommendations, which have strengthened the arguments considerably. The
map was reproduced by the Cartographic Unit, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.